“Shahnameh” by Ferdowsi in Iranian Professional Music

Authors

  • Askhar Janabi Wahab Institute of Arts

Keywords:

“Shahnameh”, Armenian composers living in Iran, Iranian Professional Music

Abstract

Postgraduate Student at the NAS of Armenia Asghar Janabi Vahab. - “Shahnameh” by Ferdowsi in Iranian Professional Music. National epic, "Shahnameh" poem by Ferdowsi, plays a significant role in the cultural life of Iran. Since the twentieth century, the historical, heroic, and mythological plots of this epic monument have been reflected in Iranian professional music. The purpose of the article is to present the embodiment of "Shahnameh", expressed in various musical genres in the work of contemporary Iranian composers, as one of the most original way of rethinking the national culture. Musical works inspired by the lyrics of “Shahnameh” were also created by ethnic Armenian composers living in Iran - Ashot Patmagrian and Emmanuel Melik-Aslanian, as well as Loris Tjeknavorian, prominent composer and conductor. The article presents the genre and musical characteristics of the works under discussion.

Author Biography

Askhar Janabi Wahab, Institute of Arts

(b. 1984, Iran). In 2003-2004 he studied at the preparatory courses of the Department of Opera Singing at the YSC, and in 2010 he graduated with a Master’s degree from the Department of Opera Singing at the YSC (class of V. Harutyunyan). In 2011-2012 he graduated from the Higher Courses in Performing Arts. In 2011-2012 he was a postgraduate student at the YSC researching “Music in Shahnameh poem by Ferdowsi” (Senior Adviser Lilit Yernjakyan, Doctor in Art Sciences). In 2010-2013 he participated in Master-classes by Nodar Andguladze (Tbilisi, Georgia). Since 2020, he is teaching solfeggio at the State University of Islamic Arts in Tevriz and singing, and solfeggio at the Pulian Music Institute (Tehran). Since 2016, he is a director and teacher at the private Academy of Vocal Art “Honare Avaz” in Keredzha. He compiled the proceedings of the First International Research Conference of Iranian Students “The Role of Music in Shahnameh” (Yerevan, Publishing House of the Iranian Embassy, 2011, in Persian). He is also the author of the following articles: “The Golden Age of Opera in Italy, Bel Canto”//”The Art of Music” magazine, Tehran, 2011, No. 11-12; “Music in Illustrations to Shahnameh”//Proceedings of the Tenth Research Session of Young Armenian Art Critics, Yerevan, 2016, pp. 239-248; “Music and Performing Tradition of “Shahnameh” in Zurkhane” // “Kantech” Collection of Research Articles No. 2 (67), Yerevan, 2016, pp. 263-270; “Music and Musical Instruments in Shahnameh”, Der Pharmacia Lettre, 2017, 9 [8]: 77-82 (available at www.scholarsresearchlibrary.com).

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Published

2020-11-25

How to Cite

Wahab Ա. Ա. (2020). “Shahnameh” by Ferdowsi in Iranian Professional Music. Musical Armenia, 1(58), 81–86. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/181

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Vol. 1 No. 58 (2020): Musical Armenia

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